Check back periodically, this post will be updated as more shows are announced. Go crazy.
Marco Benevento
Big Easy music fans in the Big Apple have a chance to le bon temps roule during this year’s Mardi Gras season thanks to this multi-night showcase by NYC’s purveyors of live NOLA funk. The 6th Annual NOLAFUNK.com Mardi Gras Ball(s) event will take place at New York’s Hiro Ballroom on February 18. Artists performing at the two-day event include Kermit Ruffins & the BBQ Swingers, Bonerama, Outer Borough Brass Band and DJ Cochon de Lait. Benevento will perform with Bonerama throughout their set as he did at Jazz Fest this past year. Nolafunk.com will also host the Mardi Gras (other) Ball at the Hiro on February 19. Kermit Ruffins & the BBQ Swingers, Bonerama plus Marco and other special guests will perform at that event as well.
The lineup for this year’s Mountain Jam was just released. Steve Winwood and Gov’t Mule will be headlining, with Michael Franti & Spearhead, The Roots, Ben Folds Five, The Word, Trombone Shorty and tons others joining them for the weekend of May 31-June 3 (right after Memorial Day) back on Hunter Mountain in NY. Read on for the full lineup… READ MORE
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Rubblebucket @ moe.down 2011
This week in the NYC concert scene, we’ve got moe. doing a record release show, Rubblebucket and Superhuman Happiness hit the Bowery for a great double bill, Cloud Nothings playing Webster Hall, we get two nights of instrumental Zeppelin jams from our friends Bustle in Your Hedgerow, and Charles Bradley will bust out his James Brown tribute “Black Velvet.” Read on for the highlights as I see ‘em… READ MORE
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Umphrey's McGee @ Catskill Chill 2011
This week in NYC live music, we’ve got some interesting shows for the NY Guitar Festival, a two-night stand by Umphrey’s McGee, the 12th annual Freaks Ball kicks off this weekend with two shows at Brooklyn Bowl, and lots of standout indie rockers hit the stage. Here are the highlights as I see ‘em… READ MORE
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Yellow Ostrich @ SXSW 2011 | photo by whitperson
Happy 2012 live music freaks! Hope you all had a killer 2011 and finished it off with a bang and some good shows!
Last week was obviously a busy week for live music fans in the New York metro area, so naturally, the concert calendar slows down a bit this week as we start the new year. But that’s not to say there aren’t some great shows to hit.
Before digging into the week’s list of shows and recs, please let me know if you have any suggestions for improving this weekly series of concert calendar posts. I’m always looking for ways to make these posts more informative and useful for New York-area concert fans, so please drop me a comment or send me an email.
Ok, back to business…read on for the full run-down of this week’s interesting shows. READ MORE
For whatever reason, in music, as is the case in just about any other line of work, some days don’t glue themselves to the long term memory bank like the others. However, on any given night, certain indescribable circumstances can converge, lightning-and-a-bottle can be captured, magic can happen, and an unforgettable live music experience is forged deep into the hippocampus for both the fans and artists themselves. These are the concerts, life events, and peak professional moments we hoped to capture in this feature by asking a few standard questions about the year in music to some of our favorite artists.
Phish | photo by WHITperson
Happy holidays, dudes and dudettes! Hope you got everything you wished for and downed copious amounts of egg nog. Now, on to more important stuff than family gatherings and gift exchanges….live music! Naturally, there are ton of great shows going on this week in NYC as we lead up to New Year’s Eve, including some multi-night holiday runs, some late-night throwdowns, and plenty of NYE parties that don’t involve watching a ball drop in 10-degree weather. READ MORE
